This day in history April 14, 2019
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Started by metmike - April 14, 2019, 9:42 p.m.

Read about history and pick one for us if you want:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_14


1561 – A celestial phenomenon is reported over Nuremberg, described as an aerial battle.


1561 celestial phenomenon over Nuremberg


 

Celestial phenomenon over the German city of Nuremberg on April 14, 1561, as printed in an illustrated news notice in the same month


1935 – The Black Sunday dust storm, considered one of the worst storms of the Dust Bowl, swept across the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles and neighboring areas.


1999   – A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A$2.3 billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.

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By metmike - April 14, 2019, 9:57 p.m.
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Black Sunday (storm)


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sunday_(storm)

Black Sunday refers to a particularly severe dust storm that occurred on April 14, 1935, as part of the Dust Bowl.[1] It was one of the worst dust storms in American history and it caused immense economic and agricultural damage.[2] It is estimated to have displaced 300 million tons of topsoil from the prairie area in the US.

Effects

The destruction caused by the dust storms, and especially by the storm on Black Sunday, killed multiple people[citation needed] and caused hundreds of thousands of people to relocate[6]. Poor migrants from the American Southwest (known as "Okies" - though only about 20 percent were from Oklahoma) flooded California, overtaxing the state's health and employment infrastructure.[7]

Personal accounts of Black Sunday and other dust storms

During the 1930s, many residents of the Dust Bowl kept accounts and journals of their lives and of the storms that hit their areas. Collections of accounts of the dust storms during the 1930s have been compiled over the years and are now available in book collections and online.


Temperatures across the United States.

https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-high-and-low-temperatures

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  • Line graph showing values of the U.S. Heat Wave Index for each year from 1895 to 2015.
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    This figure shows the annual values of the U.S. Heat Wave Index from 1895 to 2015. These data cover the contiguous 48 states. Interpretation: An index value of 0.2 (for example) could mean that 20 percent of the country experienced one heat wave, 10 percent of the country experienced two heat waves, or some other combination of frequency and area resulted in this value.



The decade of the 1930's was a REAL climate crisis! The last 40 years of climate on this planet has been the best for life in the last 1,000 years..............as we head into a climate optimum...........similar to the one just over 5,000 years ago, called the Holocene Climate Optimum.

Carbon Dioxide Fertilization Greening Earth, Study Finds

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_climatic_optimum

                         

From a quarter to half of Earth’s vegetated lands has shown significant greening over the last 35 years largely due to rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change on April 25.

An international team of 32 authors from 24 institutions in eight countries led the effort, which involved using satellite data from NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer instruments to help determine the leaf area index, or amount of leaf cover, over the planet’s vegetated regions. The greening represents an increase in leaves on plants and trees equivalent in area to two times the continental United States.

globe of Earth from North Pole perspective



Holocene climatic optimum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_climatic_optimum

 

Temperature variations during the Holocene from a collection of different reconstructions and their average. The most recent period is on the right, but the recent warming is only seen in the inset.


The Holocene Climate Optimum warm event consisted of increases of up to 4 °C near the North Pole (in one study, winter warming of 3 to 9 °C and summer of 2 to 6 °C in northern central Siberia)

By carlberky - April 15, 2019, 6:47 a.m.
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Felt like a kid in a candy store.

1865 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth; Lincoln died the next day.
1912 – The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
1994 – In a U.S. friendly fire incident during Operation Provide Comfort in northern Iraq, two United States Air Force aircraft mistakenly shoot-down two United States Army helicopters, killing 26 people.
1999 – NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees. Yugoslav officials say 75 people were killed.
2003 – The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%.
2014 – Two hundred seventy-six schoolgirls are abducted by Boko Haram in Chibok, Nigeria.